Closing arguments in Jodi Arias murder trial

Defendant Jodi Arias sits in the courtroom during her trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Arias is charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting death of Travis Alexander, 30, in his suburban Phoenix home in June 2008. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Mark Henle, Pool)
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Defendant Jodi Arias sits in the courtroom during her trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix on Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Arias is charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting death of Travis Alexander, 30, in his suburban Phoenix home in June 2008. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Mark Henle, Pool)
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"And this love, well, she rewarded that love for Travis Alexander by sticking a knife in his chest. And . he's a good man . And with regard to being a good man, well, she slit his throat as a reward for being a good man," Martinez told the jury.

"And in terms of these blessings," he continued, "well, she knocked the blessings out of him by putting a bullet in his head."

Martinez then described in detail the stabbing, Alexander's fight for his life, the slitting of his throat and the gunshot to his head.

"Mr. Alexander did not die calmly," Martinez told jurors in January.

Alexander suffered nearly 30 knife wounds, was shot in the forehead and had his throat slit. Arias' palm print was found in blood at the scene, along with nude photos of her and the victim from the day of the killing.

She said she recalls Alexander attacking her in a fury after a day of sex. She said she ran into his closet to retrieve a gun he kept on a shelf and fired in self-defense but has no memory of stabbing him.

Arias' grandparents reported a .25-caliber handgun stolen from their Northern California home about a week before the killing - the same caliber used to shoot Alexander - but Arias said she didn't take it. Authorities believe she brought it with her to kill the victim.

Arias has acknowledged trying to clean the scene of the killing, dumping the gun in the desert and working on an alibi, even attending a memorial service for Alexander before her arrest in July 2008.